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Psych 206 Unit 1 Flashcards

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Child Development

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Tries to understand processes that govern appearance, growth of children’s function to adapt in life.

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Physical Development

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Growth in size, muscle, strength

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Cognitive Development

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Changes in perception, thinking, remembering communicating.

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Socioemotional Development

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Changes in interaction/managing emotions.

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Why do researchers study child development?

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To gain insight into human nature.

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Nature and Nurture

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Nature-Biological environment forces, is hereditary. Nurture-Environment influences.

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Neuroscience

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Study of structure,function of brain and nervous system.

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Diversity and Muticulturalism

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Investigating how cultural values impact society.

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Positive Development and Resilience

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Increasing research in positive psychology.

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Mathematical Calculation

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Determine relationships between traits.

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Correlation Coefficient

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Mathematical number between +1.00 and -1.00

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Research Groups(Experimental and Control Group)

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Experimental-Group that receives treatment.

Control Group- Group that does not receive treatment.

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Social Policy

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Officials at local, state, federal levels use knowledge.

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Education Psychology

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Educators use knowledge about children learning potential.

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Theory

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An explanation of how facts fit together.

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Psychosexual Theory of Development(Freud)

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Oral-Sucking
Anal- Control and elimination of waste
Phallic- Parent-child conflict over masturbation.
Latency- Sexual feelings
Genital- Intercourse
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Sigmund Freud (Egos)

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ID-Sexual and aggressive instincts
Ego- Rational thought
Superego- Ethics, moral, conscience

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Erik Erikson (Psycho-social Theory)

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1-Basic Trust V. Basic Mistrust- Seeks consistent, predictable, reliable care.
2-Autonomy V. Shame/Doubt- Not only gaining sense of pleasure via anal sphincter.
3-Initiative V. Guilt- Physical and Intellectual growth.
4-Industry V. Inferiority- Sense of mastery of method and technique.
5- Identity V. Inferiority- Puberty and Experimentation.

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Classical Conditioning(Pavlov)

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Learning through association where neutral stimuli are paired with unconditioned stimuli to evoke conditioned responses.

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Operant Conditioning(B.F. Skinner)

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A type of learning where a person’s actions are reinforced or punished.

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Albert Bandura

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Social Learning- Learn by observing and imitating others.

Social Cognition- How children think about actions are observed.

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Lev Vygotsky

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Sociocultural Theory- Children’s thinking influence by language and culture.

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Zone of Proximal Development

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Range of tasks child can perform with help.

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Scaffolding

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Provide problem solving methods until performed independently.

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Cognitive Theories

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Focuses on how understanding is adjusted as world is explored.

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Cognitive Perspective

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Focuses on children’s mental processes. How children perceive, mentally represent world.

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Cognitive Developmental Theory (Piaget)

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How children adjust to the world.

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Ethology

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Concern with instinctive behavior patterns.

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Ecological Perspective

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Interactions with children in which they live.

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Assimilation

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Bringing new info into existing schemes.

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Accomodation

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Cognitive growth as defined by modifying existing schemes.

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Behaviorism(Watson)

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Tried to make psychology a natural science.

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Physical Development

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Grows in size,muscles become coordinated.

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Behavior Genetics

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When researchers study the relative roles of nature v.nurture.

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Hypothesis

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Form theories to collect observations.

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Sociocultural Theory

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Theory that focuses on how language and culture influence children.

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Information Processing Approach

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Focuses on how children perceive information.

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Descriptive Methods

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Attempt to describe something about a behavior and the conditions that occur.

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Scientific Methods

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Researchers collect data by making systematic observations.

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Correlation Method

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Two or more variables are associated.

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Cross-Sectional Method

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Compare children of different ages.

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Longitudal Method

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Studies the same children over time.

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Experiment

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Manipulate an independent variable to determine differences in dependent variables.

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Positive Psychology

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New emphasis on psychology focuses on happiness and positive development.

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Psychoanalytic Theories

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Focuses on personality/conscious v.unconscious

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Resilient Child

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Children who arise to success in positive way.

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Dynamic Systems Theories

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Theories that use models from math and physics to understand development.

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Ecological Systems Theory

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Interacting social layers that effect children’s development.

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Ethology

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Area of studying that focuses on adaptive significance or survival value of behaviors.

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Punishment

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In operant conditioning, punishment is any change in a human or animal’s surroundings that occurs after a given behavior which will stop from occuring again.

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Reinforcement

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Reinforcement is a term used in operant conditioning to refer to anything that increases the likelihood that a response will occur. Increase in responses.

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Culture

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The set of attitudes, values, beliefs, and behaviors shared by a group of people,

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Self Report

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Any test, measure, or survey that relies on the individual’s own report of their symptoms, behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes

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Random Assignment

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The same opportunity to be assigned to any given group.

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Case Study

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Descriptive research approach to obtain an in-depth analysis of a person, group.

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Constructivism (Piaget)

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Argues that people produce knowledge and form meaning based upon their experiences.

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